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China has dispensed 1 billion vaccine doses
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People in Rongan county in China's southern Guangxi region queueing up earlier this month to receive the Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine. China aims to vaccinate 40 per cent of its population, or about 580 million people, by the end of this month.
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Elizabeth Law China Correspondent In Beijing, Elizabeth Law
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China has passed the one-billion mark in the number of Covid-19 vaccine doses administered, the country announced yesterday.
This is more than a third of the total administered worldwide.
